I am always riled when I hear the usual press attribute the Chief Borg's wealth to his technical savvy. The CB's (Chairman of the Board, Chief Borg, your choice) most memorable technical insight was that 640K should be enough for anyone. This was at a time when I was helping friends install EMS boards on their machines. The boards could only hold two megs but the trend of increasing capacity and falling memory prices was already obvious to anyone with a technical bent. Everyone but the CB, of course.
If companies ever totaled their losses due to programmers' bugs, workarounds, data loss and response time issues due to the memory limitations imposed by the DOS architecture then the total would probably far exceeds $80 billion. In fact, it might approach the enitire market cap of MSFT.
Now, the CSA is going to architect his way to his first trillion. It involves charging people to use Orifice every month over the Web. The customers will still have choice. If they choose to never see their documents again, they can stop paying.
Web Orifice will use strong encryption to supposedly insure the users' privacy. In reality, it will be to make sure you don't share your access with someone else.
Some load balancing implementations have all servers in the cluster take turns receiving requests, and passing off as needed, or use a round-robin DNS lookup, where requests come into a single DNS server (NOT a WEB SERVER, which the patent specifically states), and then pass out requests to the various web servers in the pool, without regard to current server load.
As far point this point of your well written post, the web server implementation (vs router or DNS implementation) was commercially available from Tandem Computers in 1995. It looks like InfoSpinner is going to spin out on this one...
One possible infringer: Microsoft, which has built in new clustering technology in Windows 2000.
Microsoft is probably in the clear because "its" clustering technology(which the slick rags that rely on MSFT advertising will hail as another Gates technological innovation and break through...) is actually licensed from Tandem.
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just my $.02. guess bills photo can now be split with the laser side, of bills, and the other side of balmers... i dunno how the morph will result...
We don't need to change the photo... you forget how the collective works. They share the same consciousness but they have no conscience.
Besides, Visual Basic can't handle numbers that large...
Thanks to the terms of the Caldera settlement we will never know if the Chairman of the Borg gave up his CEO title as part of the settlement...
I am always riled when I hear the usual press attribute the Chief Borg's wealth to his technical savvy. The CB's (Chairman of the Board, Chief Borg, your choice) most memorable technical insight was that 640K should be enough for anyone. This was at a time when I was helping friends install EMS boards on their machines. The boards could only hold two megs but the trend of increasing capacity and falling memory prices was already obvious to anyone with a technical bent. Everyone but the CB, of course.
If companies ever totaled their losses due to programmers' bugs, workarounds, data loss and response time issues due to the memory limitations imposed by the DOS architecture then the total would probably far exceeds $80 billion. In fact, it might approach the enitire market cap of MSFT.
Now, the CSA is going to architect his way to his first trillion. It involves charging people to use Orifice every month over the Web. The customers will still have choice. If they choose to never see their documents again, they can stop paying.
Web Orifice will use strong encryption to supposedly insure the users' privacy. In reality, it will be to make sure you don't share your access with someone else.
He has what... 80 billion dollars? He can afford to have people take baths for him.
So! Is that what they mean by filthy, stinking rich?
Some load balancing implementations have all servers in the cluster take turns receiving requests, and passing off as needed, or use a round-robin DNS lookup, where requests come into a single DNS server (NOT a WEB SERVER, which the patent specifically states), and then pass out requests to the various web servers in the pool, without regard to current server load.
As far point this point of your well written post, the web server implementation (vs router or DNS implementation) was commercially available from Tandem Computers in 1995. It looks like InfoSpinner is going to spin out on this one...
One possible infringer: Microsoft, which has built in new clustering technology in Windows 2000.
Microsoft is probably in the clear because "its" clustering technology(which the slick rags that rely on MSFT advertising will hail as another Gates technological innovation and break through...) is actually licensed from Tandem.